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Case Number : Case 1239 - 24 March Posted By: Guest

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70 year old man with 3 cm plaque on back, previously diagnosed as a scar. This is a deep incisional biopsy; F1 shows the surface of the lesion and F2-F4 shows the deeper aspects.

Case posted by Dr Uma Sundram
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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim 508

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I will call it desmoplastic melanoma, nodular lymphoid infiltrate is a clue, previous diagnosis as a scar is a common mistake.

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Dermatomyofibroma just to be different but I appreciate it is usually seen on the back of the neck in young females. Some of the spindle cells are parallel to the skin surface with sparing of the papillary dermis. The overlying epidermis is not showing any features of lentigo maligna. But there is that collection of lymphocytes in the dermis and desmoplastic melanoma presents clinically just like this and in this age group!

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Guest Romualdo

Guest Romualdo

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Mona is correct! I thought of desmoplastic melanoma but wrote spindle cell melanoma!

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Arti Bakshi

Arti Bakshi 286

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Desmoplastic melanoma most likely. Not on a sun exposed site though... would need immunos for confirmation (expect S100 to be positive).

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Guest Jim Davie MD

Guest Jim Davie MD

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Agree desmoplastic melanoma is most likely (S100 to support). Randomly hyperchromatic atypical spindle cells with aggressive dissection through skeletal muscle, but large nerves appear uninvolved. Desmoplastic stroma has a patchy lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate, and may have some granular mucin.

Would also add spindle-cell SCC to expand the differential (high-molecular weight cytokeratin CK903 may support), although there is no epidermal atypia in these sections.

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Uma Sundram

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Great comments. This is indeed desmoplastic melanoma, so called pure type--no conventional melanoma component. S100 was positive within the atypical cells and CK 5/6 was negative. A very subtle lentiginous proliferation of melanocytes was present within the epidermis but it was small; no nesting was seen.

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